ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Targeted therapy for prostate cancer may offer potential improvement over current
conventional therapies because of its specificity. Although conventional treatments
are effective, they are not curative ...

Defining educational objectives is the key to achieving the goal of professional competence in students. The technique of task analysis was selected to determine components of competence in clinical neurology appropriate ...

Abstract. Background. The tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in South Africa is characterised by one of the highest levels of TB/HIV co-infection and growing multidrug-resistant TB worldwide. Hospitals play a central role in the ...

BACKGROUND:Family physicians are trained to enable them to staff community health centres and primary care hospitals. Part of this training is teaching them procedural skills for anaesthetics and surgery. Knysna hospital ...

Objective:
This research paper reports on the radiographic outcome of unstable thoracolumbar injuries
with short segment posterior instrumentation as standalone treatment; in order to review rate
of instrumentation ...

Backgound. In many communities where TB occurs at high incidence, the major force driving the epidemic is transmission. It is plausible that the typical long delay from the onset of infectious disease to diagnosis and ...

The very high incidence of postoperative sepsis in tympanoplasty operations on ears with infected cholesteatoma prompted the development of a new technique to improve the control of local infection. An irrigation tube is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: The Ironman® triathlon is an ultra-endurance event. It has previously been
shown that heavy training schedules and racing ultra-endurance events can lead to immune
impairment. Evidence ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Faculty Health Sciences, University of ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stellenbosch, South Africa, delivers a rehabilitation training programme to its MBChB students. The aim of ...

Evidence from burden of disease and economic costing studies amply indicate that the public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol in South Africa warrants drastic action. Evidence that banning alcohol ...

Objective. To determine the leading causes of perinatal deaths and to evaluate any changes, with the inclusion of placental histology. Method. At perinatal mortality meetings, primary and final causes of death were assigned ...

The relative contributions of transmission and reactivation of latent infection to TB cases observed clinically has been reported in many situations, but always with some uncertainty. Genotyped data from TB organisms ...

C. ABSTRACT
Introduction: Medical pluralism is a worldwide phenomenon. The reality in South Africa is that healthcare is provided by both orthodox and traditional healthcare providers. There is a great reliance on ...

The expansion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE and PPE gene families seems to be linked to that
of the immunologically-important ESAT-6 (esx) gene clusters secretion system, as the ancestral
members of these families ...

There is an urgent need for a safe, effective, affordable human immunodeficiency
virus type 1 (HIV-1) vaccine that induces both cellular and humoral immunity. A
popular strategy for vaccine design is the use of plasmid ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African Protective Workshops struggle to transform to align to a developmental human rights approach and to increase sustainability in the absence of a uniform model and an implementation strategy.
This ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction:
Literature shows that the transition from high school to university is fraught with challenges
and that there is need to appreciate these challenges from the students’ perspectives ...